"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •591 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,077.10 | +55.40 | +2.74% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 62.89 | +0.05 | +0.08% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.911 | -0.005 | -0.26% |
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Ethanol •591 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •591 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 591 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 591 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 67.75 | +0.23 | +0.34% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.243 | +0.026 | +0.81% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.388 | -0.005 | -0.20% |
Markets
The Rising Cost of Survival
Socio-economic turmoil - lawlessness, poverty, lack of adequate medical facilities and attention, low to no employment, low wages, disease, no clean drinking water or water for irrigation and shortages of…
Quantitative Easing and Asset Price Inflation
A common misconception on Wall Street is that the goal of quantitative easing (QE) is to flood the banking system with additional reserves in the hope it will lower interest…
Repeated, Fraudulent Efforts At and Deviously Controlling Silver Prices – What Next?
Since we received reports from the CFTC that market players have made "repeated" and "fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control" silver prices, we have heard that HSBC Holdings and…
COT: Commercial, Non-Commercial and Small Traders
Most recently the Commitments of Traders(COT) reports got (and still get) a lot of press around the blogosphere, regularly picking out the rapid increases in the net short /net long…
The Fed Underwrites Asset Explosion
The Federal Reserve is in disarray. Unsure of whether its QE2 strategy (quantitative easing - second round) should be tabled or if it should pump $10 trillion into the economy…
Like Swimming in Quicksand...
The major indexes traded in a fairly narrow range either side of neutral and closed in mixed fashion but not far from neutral...
Loss of Purchasing Power: The True Inflation-Target Bullseye
When it comes time to put the current crop of economic blowhards and lunatics on trial for the disaster their insanely-bad advice caused, this quote from Frederic Mishkin, former Fed…
The One-Sided Compromise
Last weekend, the G-20 finance ministers met in South Korea to find areas of agreement in preparation for the main G-20 gathering in November. The Chinese rebuffed renewed American pleas…
Turkmenistan Takes Sides in Pipeline Supply Competition
While Russia has stated that its state-owned gas giant Gazprom would participate in a trans-Afghan pipeline with Turkmenistan, Turkmen officials have denied the same. This comes after a rather disappointing…
Yields Are Rising, Equities to Face Headwinds
Several weeks ago, I outlined my road map for the next couple of weeks, and this centered around rising Treasury yields. So far this "call" is looking good as yields…
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